Chet Faker Quotes

I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

Singing and dancing are the greatest emotional outlets you can have.

I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.

"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out.

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own rock band, I played bass and sang. I was one of those kids who really enjoyed being with my friends and doing rather insane, but fun, creative things.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with the guy who was singing onstage. That was the first time I ever got on a stage in front of people.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.

When I sing, it's just... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

I love to sing with great singers.

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.